![]() Relationships often wear themselves down over the years. But then there are even deeper needs.īased on frustration over the album – you were gone for parts of it because of the film – or on a feeling that you’d gone as far as you could with Simon & Garfunkel? I don’t know how much I want to get into R STONE as far as examinations of things that don’t work, because they’re usually petty shit.Įxaminations of why things don’t work, negative things, can be lessons, or, enlightenment to people who were carried along on the strength of your feelings about the unity of people through the unity of Simon & Garfunkel.īeyond the words of the songs, I felt that S&G projected the hopefulness of an ongoing friendship as a sort of a public message. Things work in relationships and things don’t work. Cut me open and look at all my contradictory reactions to uh, do I think that’s a good idea? Do I trust? Do I sense an ego trying to subtract from my ego? It’s the kind of thing I don’t want to get into, really. Interesting question, He said that was an idea he wanted to do. How did the decision come for Paul to sing a verse of “Bridge Over Troubled Water”? We’re anxious to see each other when we see each other. How was the relationship between you at that time? Were you cordial, anxious to see each other after two or three months? And I did think beforehand that it would be a kick, some kind of novel experience, and yet after about three bars into the first song I had a very strong feeling, “Well, here we are again. We had ostensibly broken up and here we were doing this thing together. It was the first time I had sung with Paul onstage in quite a while. I do believe in the lesser of two evils, and in that spirit I became a McGovern supporter. I loved the idea of those three acts, I thought it would be a terrific show. ![]() Much more than McGovern ever could to my politics. What hat motivated you to do the reunion with Paul on behalf of McGovern? There were also the reunions of Peter, Paul and Mary and of Nichols and May. ![]() Garfunkel had been described, in reviews, as less than casual in performance. We began with the kind of question we knew he’d love: about his “reunion” last year with Simon for a McGovern benefit. At one point, he said: “I don’t want to tell the whole story on my personal life because my personal life is more important than a full story.” Over three days, we compiled some 60,000 words together, and few of them weren’t thought out – and re-thought, and rephrased to Garfunkel’s own sense of inoffensive perfection. It was that meticulousness, in part, that had led to the dissolution of Simon & Garfunkel now, he was being almost impossibly guarded in his responses to questions concerning his former partner and oldest friend. Garfunkel treated the interview with the same care – and caution – he has given his records. “For me, the recorded sound is the record.” The lyrics are clearly secondary there are no Paul Simon compositions in ‘Angel Clare.’ Much of it is as full and beautiful as the best of S&G, and as meticulous and artful as the man himself.Īt the album-hearing (if not listening) party at Columbia, Garfunkel stood around, looking, as he often does, like a student teacher, and told how he spent 80% of his efforts on the instrumental tracks. It is churchy, with its echoes achieved inside the nearby Grace Cathedral, and with Garfunkel’s own multilayered vocals at one point backed by a platoon of ten-year-old Chinese kids from the St. The album, called ‘Angel Clare,’ adheres to the image of Art Garfunkel as the choirboy of pop music. He had recorded the album here over a period of nearly two years, supported in the studio by a wide range of local and favorite musicians, the sessionmen who’d backed up Simon & Garfunkel, and Roy Halee, the engineer who’d been there when he and Paul first auditioned for Columbia nine years ago. ![]() During a short stop in San Francisco two weeks ago, he sat down for a total of eight hours over one weekend to do the Rolling Stone Interview. ![]()
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